Webmaster (film)

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Skyggen
Skyggen boxcover.jpg
Directed byThomas Borch Nielsen
Written byThomas Borch Nielsen
Produced by Søren Juul Petersen
Starring Lars Bom
Puk Scharbau
Jørgen Kiil
Karin Rørbeck
CinematographyLars Beyer
Edited byKasper Leick
Music byArne Schultz
Distributed byScanbox (Denmark)
Sterling Home Entertainment (US)
Release date
  • 1998 (1998)
Running time
97 minutes
Country Denmark
LanguageDanish

Webmaster (original title Skyggen, also known as The Shadow) is a 1998 Danish cyberpunk thriller film. [1] [2]

Directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen, it stars Danish actor Lars Bom as the cerebral, machine-like hacker-turned-webmaster J.B., who performs his job while hanging upside down, wearing virtual reality goggles, his mind busy deep inside cyberspace. Upon witnessing a murder, he teams up with the impulsive, energetic Miauv (Puk Scharbau).

The film won a Silver Grand Prize at the 1999 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film and a Danish Robert Award [3] for Best Production Design.

Webmaster was financed by the Danish bank Forstædernes Bank; [4] the final production cost was not disclosed by neither the producers nor the director. The film was met with mixed reviews when it was released in Denmark in 1998. [5]

References

  1. "Webmaster (1998) - IMDb" via www.imdb.com.
  2. "Skyggen (1998)". www.danskefilm.dk.
  3. "FilmAkademiet - fremmer film og tv som kunstarter". www.filmakademiet.dk.
  4. Forstædernes Bank is no longer a functional lending and savings institution.
  5. Piil, M. (2008). Gyldendals danske filmguide (in Danish). Gyldendal. p. 494. ISBN   978-87-02-06669-2 . Retrieved 22 June 2021.